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Duane Reade To The Rescue! Evolution and Adaptation

Well that’s a mouthful! But wait…Duane Reade, New York’s very own born-in-Lower Manhattan, all grown-up-now and all over the City chain of stores REALLY is a prime example of retail natural selection, evolution and adaptation.

It started out as a three store health and beauty chain in 1960 and look where they are today.

Others came and went, they stayed and grew – natural selection. As retail outlets failed and left a consumer void, Duane Reade came along and filled each gap – evolution. Duane Reade started out as a drug storeand has morphed into a consumer’s mecca, carrying everything from greeting cards to gum, cosmetics to candy, cleaning products to cat food, milk to mops, school supplies to sushi and some even serve alcohol – adaptation. They are all things to all people. a market place where you can get what you want and what you need when you want it and when you need it.

When Duane Reade located on the corner of my street, a whole new world opened up for me! OMG! Here was the answer. YES!

Need to buy a birthday card on my way to the office? Duane Reade is right downstairs. Husband coughing a lot, run down and get some cough medicine-Duane Reade! Oops, no more cat food-Duane Reade! Cleaning lady coming and I’m out of floor wax and furniture polish-Duane Reade! Milk for breakfast tomorrow morning-Duane Reade! Open 24 hours! Granddaughter visiting, gummy bears and cookies-Duane Reade!

And I could go on and on and on…but really, surely you get the picture!! Duane Reade is there for me (and you) for just about everything and anything I need at all hours. And there’s more…

The stores look amazing with their new jazzed-up color scheme, I love the lavender and they’re always clean and well-lit. I can’t tell you how many times I come home late after a long hard and sometimes bad day at work and before I go into my apartment building, I stop in the store, sometimes just to walk around. Looking at the nail polish colors makes me feel good and while I’m there, maybe I should buy some soy chips.

I’m lucky in that I have my own personal Duane Reade right downstairs in my building which means the most convenient ATM in the City is at my fingertips. Thank you Duane Reade.

And lucky for the rest of you, Duane Reade has about 257 stores in the New York Metropolitan area so you should never be too far from finding what you need when you need it!

Stay tuned readers, there’s more DR forthcoming…that is as soon as they designate me as one of their ten VIP bloggers! After all, I tell it the way I see it, share my City with all of my readers and probably would be the ONLY blogger whose name consists of products sold in Duane Reade!!! #DReade